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Joanna Golden is an Associate Professor of Accountancy in the Crews School of Accountancy at the University of Memphis. Her research examines auditing, financial reporting, accounting human capital, artificial intelligence, labor markets and corporate decision-making. She uses large-scale archival data, textual analysis and machine-learning methods to study how employees, technologies, organizational characteristics and regulatory environments influence financial reporting and audit outcomes.
Her research has been published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Management Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance and other academic journals.
Dr. Golden teaches auditing, advanced auditing, accounting data analytics, systems assurance and financial accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Before entering academia, she worked as an auditor with KPMG in Detroit.
Dr. Golden has taught both the undergraduate and graduate courses in the Crews School of Accountancy at the University of Memphis, including:
- ACCT 7312: Accounting Data Analytics II
- ACCT 7242: Advanced Auditing
- ACCT 4030/6030: Systems Assurance/Advisory I
- ACCT 4240: Audit/Assurance Services
- ACCT 2010: Principles of Accounting I
- George Johnson Teaching Fellowship, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, University of Memphis, 2022–2024
- Second Place, Empirical Research Category, University of Memphis Outstanding Paper
Award, 2026
Golden, J., & Liu, X. K. (2025). Capitalization of operating leases and the cost of bank loans. Journal of Corporate Finance, 102773. - First Place (Tie), University of Memphis Outstanding Paper Award, 2021
Bhandari, A., & Golden, J. (2021). CEO political preference and credit ratings. Journal of Corporate Finance, 68, 101909.
Selected Publications
- “Capitalization of Operating Leases and the Cost of Bank Loans,” Journal of Corporate Finance, 2025.
- “Directors’ Media Experience, News Coverage, and Analyst Information Processing,” Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2025.
- “CEO Political Preference and Credit Ratings,” Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021.
- “Labor Adjustment Costs and Asymmetric Cost Behavior: An Extension,” Management Accounting Research, 2020.
- “CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting,” Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2020.
- "The Unintended Effect of FAS 123R on Stock Repurchase Activity and the Stock-Option Incentive to Substitute Stock Repurchases for Dividends,” Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance. 2019.